“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

with your existence, you wicked

 

The mood was strange.

 

they couldn’t

 

of them would turn around any minute now, storming out of the door if not taking swings at each other before that. Instead, it was the distance between them that was dwindling, something I couldn’t quite put my

 

almost chest

 

be my appearance you’re at least not dissatisfied with,

 

it didn’t mean anything. There are a

 

here, then? Hurry up and

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

other, right?” The man came closer, as if there was

 

participate in the stupid

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

frustration and moving swiftly, the woman raked her fingers through the man’s hair and dug her nails into the back

 

was twice her size,

 

and why I was here, as I

 

heating up for a while now, and the sounds of heavy breaths and desperate kissing filled the dark chamber. The only source of light came from the moon raining down on the couple clutching each other tightly

 

romantic, yet macabre. Sad and hopeless and wretched all at

 

eyes

 

a ghost in this dream, after all. Someone from the

 

somehow, that woman smiled at me—a

 

my chest broke and smashed into pieces. The face I hadn’t been able to see

 

The woman was me.

 

that’s you… That’s

 

Then, that man is…

 

as if someone had turned me to stone. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t talk. I couldn’t call out to

 

waned, and the room plunged into darkness. The man and the woman vanished and I lost myself to the shadows in this empty

 

***

 

right into my eyes had me twitching,

 

thing that came to me was the heavy feeling in my head. I tried to lift my hand,

 

am I? Who got me here?

 

woke up, I turned my eyes to my

 

I wanted to cry.

 

him safe and lying next to me, looking like he hadn’t just gone through hell and back, but there were no

 

him in, my eyes leaving no part

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

hand and run my fingers through his bangs, the movement taking everything out of me, but my want was greater

 

His voice was low and hoarse, almost a whisper in the

 

really thinking of anything. It felt like it didn’t really matter, none of

 

in my previous life and everything I had done in this life, all of it flashed

 

stranger in my own

 

with was low and hoarse as well, a whisper I breathed out. “Because I thought you’d

 

“What…?”

 

really been me. All I was, was an illusion. Once it broke, everyone changed. It’s always been

 

was something I knew very well, something that

 

with me once they realized I wasn’t what they had wanted me to be. When my brother had had enough of my sniveling and groveling and breaking down, when I wasn’t the perfect sister, always composed and worthy of the family name like he had expected me

 

been like

 

“Always.”

 

muscle twitched in his jaw and his lips curled into a mean snarl. I knew it wasn’t me he was directing it at. “Were all the people around you blind and

 

I’m

 

with my numb finger, gently at first until I pressed hard on the bone of his cheek, wondering if

 

such a silly joke, Izek still kept on gazing

 

other arm was free, he could embrace me fully, enveloping me

 

I moved instead, putting my own arm around his wide torso and burying my

 

understand why my head

 

a dream, but I didn’t remember it

 

like that. Because it’s not your fault. It’s not always all about you,

 

suffering-from-main-character-disease arrogant man, I

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